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Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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Date: 
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 00:05:32 GMT
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I have told many people about lugnet, and what a great site for lego content,
but the volumes of messages the last few days contradict that.  When will we
be returned to our regularly scheduled programming?


In lugnet.admin.general, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Erin Windross writes:
Okay, I may have made a ..............er..........uhh........conterversial
error in posting that message, so.....Todd, please delete my message (and • if
you could, all the messages in reply to my message)
Thanks.

I can't know exactly which message you mean (I can guess) without a group
and message number, but if you can point precisely to it (send me an email)
I can cancel it upon your request.  However, I can't (won't) cancel other
peoples' replies without their first having explicitly asked...

--Todd

Arrr, as us piratical types be saying, the cat's out o' the bag.  :-)

Bruce



Message has 4 Replies:
  Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics
 
(...) As far as I'm aware, all of the religious debate messages are all properly placed in the .off-topic.debate group (with a couple spinoff sub-threads in the .admin.general group)... Just set your newsreader not to download the .off-topic.debate (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
(...) We never left it. Fridays are (IIRC) typically slow days for traffic on Lugnet, for a bunch of reasons. Today, that low volume is combined with a fast-paced debate (not the first, won't be the last), so it looks a bit weird on the stats, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
  Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
(...) Is it me, or is there an inordinately large number of people complaining about on-topic discussion in the .off-topic.* groups today? There certainly might be *some* confusion when a newcomer sees four non-Lego messages on the front page. But (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: The cat is out of the bag (or, this is OFF-TOPIC.DEBATE!!!)
 
(...) Why are you asking me? Why not ask the guy who started this discussion? What part of "Off-topic.debate" isn't clear? This has actually been a very good discussion - much better than most. This has been the most benign discussion I have ever (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Please, just end the entire thing! ( was: Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
 
(...) Arrr, as us piratical types be saying, the cat's out o' the bag. :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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